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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52606	A brief history of the Unitarians, called also Socinians in four letters, written to a friend.	Nye, Stephen, 1648?-1719.; Biddle, John, 1615-1662.; Firmin, Thomas, 1632-1697.	1687 (1687)	Wing N1505; ESTC R37735	58,564	186

that our High-Priest and Intercessor having been in our very Circumstances is touched with a true Feeling of our Infirmities and therefore doth with great Earnestnest intercede for us all in general 35. Heb. 7. 3. Without Father without Mother having neither Beginning of Days nor end of Life but made like unto the Son of God abideth a Priest for ever Answ All acknowledg that these Words are spoken of Melchizedec And that because neither his Father nor Mother nor the time of his Birth or Death are mentioned in Scripture he is therefore said to be withour Father or Mother and without Beginning of Days or end of Life But he is not herein like the Son of God the time of whose Birth and Death is recorded in Scripture and whose Mother was blessed Mary and his Father the everlasting God but he is like the Son of God in that he abideth a Priest for ever 36. Heb. 10. 5. A Body hast thou prepared for me Answ 'T is undoubted that God prepared a Body for the Soul of Christ 37. Heb. 11. 26. Esteeming i. e. Moses esteeming the Reproach of Christ greater Riches than the Treasures of Egypt Answ The sense is Moses preferred being reproached and ill used by Pharaoh and the Egyptians as Christ was reproached and abused when he came to deliver the true Israel of God from the Bondage of Sin and Satan before all the Treasures and Riches which he as an adopted Son of Pharaoh's Daughter might have expected and had in Egypt So Grotius and others the most esteemed Interpreters 38. Heb. 13. 8. Jesus the same yesterdy today and for ever Answ This is prefaced to what here follows be not carried away with diverse and strange Doctrines as an Argument to perswade Constancy in the true Faith. The sense is the Lord Christ and his Gospel is the same thing that it always was be not therefore carried about to every novel Doctrine Ye will by Experience find that 't is a good thing to be establish'd in the Grace of the Gospel and not in Doctrines about Meats which the Jews from the Mosaic Law and the Gentiles from the Dictates of their Philosophers so much urge 39. 1 Pet. 1. 11. Searching what and what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify when it testified before-hand the Sufferings of Christ. Answ 1. The Spirit of Christ that is the same Spirit of Prophecy that was in Christ Or 2. The Prophetick Spirit in them which spoke of Christ So Grotius interprets here Others confirm his Interpretation by observing that the Spirit of Truth and the Spirit of Error mentioned 1 John 4. 6. are those Spirits which speak the Truth and teach Error So we call Virgil the Poet of Eneas and Homer of Achilles and Vlisses because they have written and spoken of Eneas Achilles and Vlisses 40. 1 Pet. 3. 19 20. Quickned by the Spirit by which also he went and preached to the Spirits in Prison which sometimes were disobedient in the days of Noah Answ This Text seems to speak of Christ's descent into Hell. The sense is Christ being dead was shortly quickned or brought to Life again by the Spirit or Power of God by which also that is by assistance of which Spirit he preached and spoke to the Spirits imprisoned in Hell who would not harken to Noah who in his Life-time preached Righteousness to them 2 Pet. 2. 5. Cardinal Bellarmine has quoted above thirty of the Fathers who interpret this Text after this manner The Interpretation seems confirmed by 1 Pet. 4. 6. For this cause was the Gospel preached also to them that are dead For that he speaketh of the real dead appears by the foregoing verse 41. 1 John 1. 1 c. That which was from the Beginning which we have seen with our Eyes of the Word of Life declare we unto you Answ The Word of Life here is the Gospel The sense is we declare or preach to you that Gospel or Word of Life which from the Beginning was in the Mind and Decree of the Father So St. John explains himself in these Words at ver 3. That eternal Life which was with the Father and was manifested to us He calleth the Word of Life eternal Life as 't is the ordinary and appointed means and way to eternal Life He saith he had heard it and seen it with his Eyes and handled it with his Hands to signify by these Expressions that it was fully certainly and perfectly known to him For the Hebrews use to express full and certain Knowledg of things by Words and Phrases borrowed from the senses 42. 1 John 3. 16. Hereby perceive we the Love of God because he laid down his Life for us Answ Neither the Syriac nor almost any Greek Copy of the Bible hath the Word God in this Text. The true reading is hereby perceive we his Love because he Christ laid down his Life for us 2. Admitting the reading in the English Bible yet he in this Text is not God but Christ the Son of God who was mentioned ver 8. So Grotius And the Interpretation is certain for God cannot lay down his Life 43. 1 John 4. 3. Every Spirit that confesseth not that Christ is come in the Flesh is not of God. Answ This saying is come in the Flesh or in Flesh for so 't is in the Greek is opposed to those false Prophets and Teachers that affirmed Christ had not a real Body of Flesh and Blood but a spiritual and consequently was not a true Man nor the Off-spring of David On the contrary St. John here teaches that Christ is come in Flesh or in the Flesh that is was clothed with a real Body of real Flesh 44. 1 John 5. 7. There are three that bear Record in Heaven the Father the Word and the Holy Ghost and these three are one Answ 1. This verse was not originally in the Bible but has been added to it 'T is not found in the most ancient Copies of the Greek nor in the Syriac or Arabick or Ethiopic or Armenian Bibles nor in the most ancient Latin Bibles 'T is not acknowledged by the Fathers who treated professedly of this Question of the Trinity 't is wholly rejected by abundance of the most learned Criticks and Interpreters and by all acknowledged to be doubtful and uncertain 2. Admitting this verse to be genuine yet the most learned Trinitarians confess the sense is not these three are one God but these three are one in their Testimony or they agree in their Testimony for they are here considered and spoken of as Witnesses So Beza Vatablus Calvin Erasmus the English-Geneva Notes And accordingly most of the Greek Bibles which have this verse in them read here as they do in the next verse not these three are one but these three agree in one i. e. in one and the same Testimony 45. 1 John 5. 20. We know that the Son of God is come and hath given us an Vnderstanding